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I saw this article on Malcolm Gladwell and thought some of you might like to check it out.

Without DeLay!

Woo hoo! Killy hooked me up with link last night.

PostNotFoundException

The other day I was posting to a blogger.com blog, my sweet blogging client Paper Lantern reported a horrible error

Exception caught but no reason given com.google.blogger.exceptions.PostNotFoundException

I thought, oh no, blogger.com has changed up something on the server again and I will have to push up another Paper Lantern release.

But just to be sure the problem was on my end I googled around for the error. No results. Still believing that something must be wrong with Paper Lantern I decided to hit the blogger.com server with curl. This is what I did

curl -u <username>:<password> -H 'Content-Type: application/xml' --data-binary @test2.txt https://www.blogger.com/atom/<blogid>

This curl test threw the same error.

Happily convinced that Paper Lantern was not to blame I decided to ask for help to the Blogger Dev Google group

Believe it or not after years or writing code I had never really posted to a dev forum, so I did not know what to expect…

To my surprise minutes after posting I got a reply from Steve Jensen, one of the folks working on blogger.com . He wrote that he was aware of the bug and was working on a fix. It was great to get a response so quickly!

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so we actually took the WHOLE WEEKEND OFF and went to the coast. Dropped by rockport to see D's mama, then spent Saturday and Sunday in Corpus Christi, ancestral home of Whataburger®.

ARE YOU READY!?!

i just thought this was funny after the back to back 'adorable child' photos. it is no way intended to imply that either child is not, in fact, the most adorable, smartest, talented and potentially super-intelligent, child in the known universe.

it's just funny to me.

Reasons why Todd should never live in LA

Saw this and it made me think of Todd for a couple of REALLY different reasons.
(and one of them isn't because he is A HUUGE Debra Harry, Missing Persons fan.)

Why is Pablo So Happy?????

BECAUSE HE SCORED A GOAL TODAY!!!!!!!!

After twenty years of not scoring in an official game I finally put one in today. I wish I could remember the details. It is all blurry in my mind. I seem to recall that I received the ball at the top of the box. I beat two defenders, broke towards the goal and knocked the ball into the left corner as the goalee came of his line. I am so happy. My focus for the last year of soccer has been on learning some ball control, and offense type moves- maybe it is all starting to pay off.

Next week is the first round of the state tournament; we play a team from San Antonio...